Wonderful wet weekend

We had our annual Jolie weekend in Southwold. Starting off with breakfast at Cafe Clare in Clare, Suffolk, we spent all day getting there taking the scenic route through the villages and stopping wherever the fancy took us.

We had cream teas at The Weavers Tea Room in Peasenhall, just as Donna had a text from Slimming World wishing her a great weekend. Ooops!

Stopped at Yoxford Antiques Emporium where we met Hinge and Bracket.

Spotted a great crochet swimsuit. Pity the weather wasn't up to it.

Linda found some nice fabric, a dodgy housecoat, neglige thing (she didn't buy it) and a great beehive style hat (which she should have bought).

We stayed at The Swan in Southwold.

Trish and Julie came too. Julie somehow managed to avoid the camera.

We were joined by Sinjit and Minjeeta for the room party on Sunday night.

It was a blustery, windy, rainy, wet weekend in July. For goodness sake, what happened to the weather this summer?

Sailor Bill obliged by taking a picture of us .....and a liking to Linda too.

Found a little bit of colour by the seaside.

and Southwold's lighthouse is so pretty.

We loved the homage to Southwold crochet curtain.

We did see the sea - but this was about as close as we got.

Dany shared her big Toasty cardi with Karen.

Windy windmills.

We managed plenty of shopping, of course. Donna bought new Fit Flops.

Tea, again, down at Susie's kiosk, by the seafront.

Hellie purchased a charity shop raincoat - more out of necessity than style we felt.

Coffee this time in Woodbridge on the way home. There was an incredible downpour while we were drinking our coffee and we couldn't get out because the street flooded. We had to leave through the back kitchen door of Caffe Nero.

Aah, but it was great inspite of the weather. A happy laugh-a-minute good time was had by all. To top it all we finished up at The Angel in Lavenham for a truly delicious meal. Unbeknown to us Marco Pierre White took over about 10 days previously - we thought it was good and by golly the food was amazing and not too expensive. Definitely worth a revisit.